"Alice's Festival Of Romance"
Romantic films often explore the essential themes of love at first sight, young (and older) love, unrequited love, obsessive love, sentimental love, spiritual love, forbidden love, sexual and passionate love, sacrificial love, explosive and destructive love, and tragic love. Romantic films serve as great escapes and fantasies for viewers, especially if the two people finally overcome their difficulties, declare their love, and experience life "happily ever after" - implied by a reunion and final kiss.
Here "Alice's Festival of Romance" has been assembled below as an aphabetical list. Should more precise scrolling be required, one should go to the specific genre, ie "Classic Romance", "Comedy Romance" , "Drama Romance" or even "Queer Cinema"
Right: Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid star in Todd Haynes'
"Far From Heaven"
6.6/10
Exotic drama set in the 1930s in the rainforests of Borneo. Englishman Hugh Dancy takes a job in the British colonial outpost of Sarawak and is given... Read more
7.1/10
Based on the novel by Tim Tharp, "The Spectacular Now" is the story of Sutter Keely (Miles Teller) - high school senior, effortless charmer, and self-... Read more
4.5/10
A reporter is drawn into the dark side of post-war Copenhagen as he attempts to uncover a crime syndicate on an unprecedented level. In 1949, durin... Read more
5.9/10
Follow the ups and downs of 15 years in the lives of Bruce Willis and Michelle Pfeiffer, a couple facing the possible end of their marriage, in direct... Read more
7/10
Rob Reiner's comedy about Walter 'Gib' Gibson, a highly-spirited young guy and self-proclaimed junk food addict, who accidentally ends up sharing a ri... Read more
7.6/10
This brillantly cast, strange mixture of screwball comedy and lynch-mob melodramatics focuses on an accused arsonist, a Supreme Court judge and the gi... Read more
7.3/10
Based on the celebrated novel by author William Faulkner and set during the early 1930s this classic romance stars Robert Stack as Roger Schumann, a d... Read more
6.3/10
River Phoenix plays his last leading role (some say operating from the twilight zone) in this enjoyable romantic fable centering on four twenty-someth... Read more
7/10
Doris Day and James Garner star in this frothy romantic comedy in which Day goes from being a housewife to a famous television personality (selling 'H... Read more
5.5/10
...(and How to Get Into It). An offbeat Elvis drama, with the King playing the manager of a touring Chautauqua company in the 20s and the trouble that... Read more